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Early Childhood Professional Resource Centre
​"Creating a bridge between research and practice in early learning and care"

Health & Wellbeing


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Autism Services Waterloo Region is a collaborative of both service providers and families in the Waterloo Region. Their goal is to move our community from an awareness of autism to an understanding of what it means to live with autism.
Check out the website for
  • Calendar of local Autism events taking place in the 
        Waterloo Region and surrounding area
  • Family Resource Coach Program: Help to navigate 
        the autism supports and services within our community. 
        Also provides connections to programs, activities, 
        information etc. 

Link to Autism Services Waterloo Region

Caring for Kids provides parents and child-care providers with information about children and youth's health and well-being. The site is developed by the Canadian Paediatric Society.
Link to Caring for Kids
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Eat Right Ontario allows you to ask nutrition-related questions and receive feedback by phone or email from a Registered Dietitian. The website provides feature articles on food and nutrition, meal planning advice, healthy eating tips and recipes on a regular basis.
Link to Eat Right Ontario
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Good Beginnings is a free professional development opportunity for Ontario childcare professionals. Providing interesting, relevant and up-to-date information on nutrition for young children, there's something for everyone - from educators, cooks and program administrators to Early Childhood Education professors and students in Ontario college and university programs.
Link to Good Beginnings website
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Menu Planning at Child Care Facilities is a document designed to assist you in planning nutritious menus for your child care facility that meet both the Day Nurseries Act (DNA) and follow Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide.

Menu Planning for Child Care Facilities
File Size: 1138 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


Nutri-eSTEP is an online health and nutrition screening system designed to support parents and caregivers with information, resources and support. Use this web tool to find out
  • what is going well
  • where there is room for improvement
  • where to find trusted healthy eating information and tools
Link to Nutri-eSTEP
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Working with Children and Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs is an organization for child care providers enhance their skills to help the children in their care.
excerpt "The main goal of this project is to help direct service providers of children and youth with complex mental health needs, enhance their skills in core service areas, including: Targeted Prevention, Brief Services, Family/Caregiver Skills Building and Support, and supporting the capacity to practice within a health equity lens."
Link to Complex Needs Website
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Conestoga College, ECE Building
299 Doon Valley Drive,
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 4M4
Contact us by email: PRCinfo@conestogac.on.ca or by phone 519.748.5220 ext 3388
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